In the article "Slavery Still in Effect: Lamentables of a Women's Health Advocate" Marlene Braxton Fischer discussed how the "strong Black woman" stereotype impacted Black women's health.  Fischer points out that while the stereotype has been used within Black communities to demonstrate the enormous hardships of sexism and racism faced by Black women this stereotype can be used to paint Black women as inherently healthy and erase the health effects of slavery. This myth, as discussed by Fischer, continued to follow Black women with the dismissal of health concerns of Black women and the lack of inclusion of Black women in pharmaceutical trials.

Slavery Still in Effect: Lamentables of a Women's Health Advocate

Body and Soul included mentions of the impact of ableism on Black women, notably without using the word ableism. Body and Soul's engagement with disability comes after a discussion of common chronic health concerns and disabilities faced by Black women there is a note of how often society both interpersonally and politically ignores the needs and personhood of disabled individuals. Body and Soul notes that this is only worse for Black individuals who are disabled because they are often not granted access to the very few federal government services for disabled Americans, e.g. Social Security disability programs. 

Body and Soul's Situation of Ableism as an Oppression Faced by Black Disabled Women

- "Slavery Still in Effect: Lamentables of a Women's Health Advocate"
- Body and Soul

University of Wisconsin - Madison

The NBWHP worked to highlight the continuous impacts of slavery, medical abuse, forced sterilization and environmental racism on generations of Black women's health.

Situating Black women's health as a part of the U.S.'s legacy of racism, sexism, and classism

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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